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posted by takyon on Friday December 08 2017, @11:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the Mein-cyberbullying-Kampf dept.

The idea of suing a website might seem abhorrent to advocates of free speech on the internet, but maybe one case shows that it can be justified?

Whitefish Woman's Lawsuit Over 'Daily Stormer' Harassment Proceeding

The Missoulian is reporting [archive] that a Whitefish woman's lawsuit against a Nazi website is going forward.

Montana Public Radio reports that Andrew Anglin, publisher of The Daily Stormer, is being sued by an individual the website targeted because of the mother of Richard Spencer:

The Daily Stormer called for readers to harass her and her family over her dealings with the mother of white nationalist Richard Spencer.

Image of part of the complaint (PDF).

Northwestern Montana, however, has had some experience in dealing with neo-Nazis in the neighborhood.


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  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday December 08 2017, @04:29PM

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Friday December 08 2017, @04:29PM (#607254) Homepage Journal

    don't know. If you dare to say something as terrible and world-ending as "not all rape accusers are telling the truth", or "Islam is provably, according to its own holy books, not a religion of peace", then you will be deplatformed pretty damned quickly nowadays. Say goodbye to your youtube ad money, and certainly don't expect to be found on the top page of search results for the video's keywords, as your hateful lies are unsuitable for anyone's fragile ears.

    Whether your claim about being "deplatformed" is true or not, the issue is one of liberty. Without the ability to reliably and with sufficient bandwidth, self-host, you're forced to deal with private third-parties who can censor you at their whim.

    So you can deal with it or you can work with your neighbors to get community-owned/operated last mile symmetric internet services (preferably FTTH) and force ISPs to compete for your business. Unless and until you do so, you're vulnerable to censorship by whoever owns your hosting platform.

    So the answer is clear, it's just not easy to fight the anti-competitive ISP oligopoly and their paid shills^W^W buddies over at ALEC [alec.org].

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